Slapstick and Old Lace is a British television sketch show which originally aired on ITV in 1971. Starring Charlie Drake, it was his follow-up to his hit...

thousands and by the end of the series, Drake's arm appeared to be 20 ft (6 m) long. Other shows included Who Is Sylvia? (1967) and Slapstick and Old Lace (1971)...

Anna Dawson (born 27 July 1937) is an English actress and singer. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Dawson spent part of her childhood in Tanganyika, where...

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slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd. These comedians often laced their...

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novel Slapstick, which meditates on the relationship between him and his sister (Alice), met a similar fate. In The New York Times's review of Slapstick, Christopher...

and Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for being both a crude and slapstick comedy...

In slang, a Mickey Finn (or simply a Mickey) is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their...

Malayalam-language slapstick comedy drama film starring Dileep, Harisree Ashokan, Nithya Das, and Cochin Haneefa. It was directed by Thaha and written by V...

(1939), the dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), and the dramas Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), and None but the Lonely Heart (1944)...

genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors...

that may include sequins, feathers, lace, tulle, or ribbons. The hats may vary widely in their structure, color, and complexity. An American adaption of...

more of a slapstick and comedy troupe especially on stage, probably akin to bands like The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in England at the time (and indeed Johnny...

she also appeared in a TV version of Arsenic and Old Lace that starred Bob Crane of Hogan's Heroes and Helen Hayes. She also made the first of her two...

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this would make for interesting dramatic contrast and good humor. Another inspiration was slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd. The archetypal Lloyd character...

popularity diminished and film budgets and production values began shrinking. Director Pupi Avati satirized the genre in 1977 with a slapstick giallo titled Tutti...

was no longer on Mork's slapstick attempts to adjust to the new world that he was in, but on the relationship between Mork and Mindy on a romantic level...

romantic comedy and bedroom farce. Films that are definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick and fast-paced repartee...

in "rubber-limbed slapstick" humor. The film earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and nominations for a...

Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, and Dick Martin. It is also known as The Spy in Lace Panties. Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation in...

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modern-day Lucille Ball with an up-for-anything mania and a gift for the low arts of slapstick and pulling faces." Although some of her movies have been...

artists (Mikey Day, Ego Nwodim, and Chris Redd), and two stunt performers (Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon) whose forte is slapstick comedy in children's movies...

nearly camp production design, the costuming—and undercuts its dramatic potential with broad, nearly slapstick humor that distances us from the characters...

Starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, this film is often called "the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made." Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - A comedy...

was good timing, with various prejudices and extremism on the rise at the time. He insisted that slapstick was a fine way of telling a story with dark...

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writing, and laced with mostly over-the-top acting. He called the characters "so contrived that the movie defies even the most basic logic", and wrote that...